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It’s not really a fair fight to compare the HD 4550 with some of the mid-range and high-end cards on the market so I decided to compare the HD 4550 with EVGA’s 9500GT which is in the same price bracket as of today due to a MIR. The market for sub $50 video cards is a bit interesting in that it is almost always better to spend a few extra dollars and get the next step up. The 9500GT performed well throughout beating the ATI card in everything except Bioshock sometimes by a big margin.
Test System
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 CPU running at 3.2GHz
- 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-2000 EPP memory running at 2000MHz
- Intel DX48BT2 Motherboard
- ATI Reference HD 4550 running 8.531 drivers
- Rosewill 950W PSU
- ASUS 16X DVD-ROM
- Windows Vista 32-bit Business with SP1 installed
Tests
DirectX 9.0
- Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
- Enemy Territory QuakeWars Patch 1.5 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
- Unreal Tournament 3 Patch 1.2 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
- STALKER 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS Walkthrough
- 3DMark05/06 version 1.3/ 1280x1024, 1920x1200 default run
- Aquamark 3 standard test
- SpecViewPerf 10
- PCMark05/Vantage
DirectX 10.0
- 3DMark Vantage 1.01 1280x1024, 1920x1200 standard test run
- Crysis Patch 1.2 1280x1024, 1680x1050 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
- Bioshock DX10 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS Walkthrough
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